Alfred Grünberg

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Memorial stone for Alfred Grünberg in Berlin-Bohnsdorf

Alfred Grünberg (born February 18, 1901 in Magdeburg , † May 21, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a worker , KPD member and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Alfred Grünberg became involved in the communist youth association early on and joined the KPD in 1928, where he was the political director of a street cell in the Berlin district of Bohnsdorf until 1933 . After the KPD was banned in 1933, he worked from 1936 to 1938 as a courier between Berlin and Prague for the political foreign leadership of the now illegal KPD. When Grünberg returned to Bohnsdorf from Prague shortly before Christmas 1938, he hid the writings he had brought with him at a feed dealer in order to distribute them in the mailboxes of the population on December 24th, disguised as Santa Claus . After the start of the war he was politically in Siemens-Works active. Grünberg was arrested several times, finally in February 1940. In January 1941, his sentence was set at 15 months.

On January 10, 1942, he and Arthur Emmerlich , Kurt Steffelbauer and Johann Gloger were sentenced to death by the People's Court for high treason . The sentence was carried out by hanging on May 21, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

Traces in the cityscape

Grünberg lived on Schönefelder Strasse in today's Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin. In the GDR this street was renamed Grünbergallee in his honor . The S-Bahn station on this street, completed in 1962, was also named Grünbergallee . The memorial plaque for Alfred Grünberg attached to the entrance to the bus stop was smeared with Nazi symbols several times after German reunification , destroyed in August 2000 and later restored. The request of the SPD and CDU municipal politicians to rename Grünbergallee again failed in 2000 because of the PDS .

In 1974 a newly built school was named "Alfred Grünberg School", after the fall of the Wall it was renamed to "Schule am Buntzelberg". In the GDR, the 23rd Polytechnic Oberschule in Treptow had the name of Alfred Grünberg since 1976 ; this school was also renamed after the fall of the Wall.

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personal data
SURNAME Grünberg, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German workers and resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1942
Place of death Criminal prison Berlin-Plötzensee